Method of attaching buttons



JOSEPH MATHISON, OF LYNN, ASSIGNOR TO THE STANDARD BUTTON FASTENINGCOMPANY, OF

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

METHOD OF ATTACHING BUTTONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,765, datedSeptember 22, 1885. Application filed October 21, 1884. No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH IVIATHISON, of Lynn, in the county of Essexand State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain .Improved Method ofAttaching Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide an improved method ofsecuring buttons having eyes projecting from the underside of the buttonto the material on which they are to be used, the invention beingchiefly applicable to buttons for boots and shoes.

The invention consists in the improved method which Iwill now proceed todescribe.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a partof thisspecification,Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 represent the different steps of the operation of securing a button by my improved method. Fig. 6 represents aperspective view of the attached button.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all thefigures.

In carrying out my invention I draw through the material a, to which thebutton is to be attached, and through the eye of the button I), a loopof thread, 2, as shown in Fig. 1. I then bend said loop over and carryit down through the material outside of the eye of the button, as shownin Fig. 2. I next pass the thread from which the loop 2 is formedthrough said loop at the under side of the material, as shown in Fig. 3,thereby locking the loop. I then draw up a second loop, 3, through theeye of the button, as shown in Fig. 4. The secured loop 3 is then bentover and passed down through the material, as shown in Fig. 5, afterwhich the thread is passed through the loop 3 below the material, asshown in Figs. 5 and 6, the loop 3 being locked thus like the loop 2.The thread passes on to the point where the next button is to beattached, and there the same operations are repeated. The button it thussecurely attached, two loops passing through and outside of the eye ofeach button.

The described method can be practiced either by hand or by asuitably-organized machine.

It will be understood that the loops are properly drawn down ortightened and not left in the loose condition shown in the drawings.They are shown in this manner for the sake of clearness.

In Fig. 5 the loops 2 and 3 are formed so that when tightened they aresubstantially in line with each other and with the thread that extendsfrom one button to the next, while in Fig. 6 the loops are formed atabout right angles with each other, and at acute angles with theconnecting portions of the thread.

I claim The improved method of attaching buttons consisting of drawingaloop of thread through the material and through the eye of the but ton,then drawing said loop down through the material outside the eye, thenlocking said loop under the material with the thread from which it isformed, then drawing a second loop through the eye of the button, andfinally drawing the second loop down through the material outside theeye of the button, and

locking said loop with the thread from which it is formed, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses, this 10th day of October, 1884.

JOSEPH MATHISON. Witnesses:

O. F. BROWN, H. BROWN.

